It is predictable that the Labour Party’s election pledge to expand Sure Start has turned into a row over how many children’s centres have actually closed since the coalition government took over in 2010…

Processing children into units of human capital as quickly as possible risks the production of ‘damaged goods’.
Genius baby via Bartosz Budrewicz/Shutterstock
February 10, 2015

In order to make young children “school ready”, the English government is now encouraging parents to place their children in school nurseries shortly after their second birthday. But there is evidence…